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Vallelonga Jr. was also the son of one of the film's main subjects, Frank 'Tony Lip' Vallelonga. NYPD identified a body found by a sheet-metal manufacturing factory in the Bronx as Frank ...
Vallelonga Jr. was the son of the real-life bouncer and actor Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga, who Viggo Mortenson portrayed in the 2018 Best Picture winner “Green Book.” Vallelonga Jr. played ...
“Green Book” actor Frank Vallelonga Jr. has died at the age of 60, Variety has confirmed. The NYPD responded to a call early Monday morning just before 4 a.m. in the Bronx and found Vallelonga ...
Vallelonga was the son of the late Frank Sr., known as “Tony Lip,” who famously accompanied Black pianist Don Shirley as a bodyguard during a tour through the Jim Crow-era South in the early ...
The film chronicles the real-life story of Vallelonga's Italian American father Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, played by Viggo Mortensen, serving as a driver for Don Shirley, a renowned Black ...
Frank Vallelonga Jr., an actor who appeared in “Green Book” and “The Sopranos,” died Monday of unknown causes in the Bronx, New York, the NYPD confirmed to TheWrap. He was 60. Police ...
Vallelonga Jr was best known for his role in the 2018 film, which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2019. He portrayed a relative of Viggo Mortensen’s character, bouncer Frank “Tony Lip ...
Vallelonga Jr. was the son of late actor Tony Lip, whose real name was Frank Vallelonga. Before Lip died in 2013, he consistently took on roles as mafia crime bosses throughout his acting career ...
They identified the man as Vallelonga. Nick Vallelonga: “Green Book” is based on a true story that happened to my father, Frank ‘Tony Lip’ Vallelonga in the early 1960s. Dec. 18 ...
The actor, who was 60, portrayed a relative of Viggo Mortensen’s bouncer, Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga. He was the son of the real-life Frank Vallelonga. The police found Vallelonga Jr ...